Economic Program

April 13, 1985

GUATEMALA CITY — Called off Friday: Tough new economic measures that caused panic buying and rumors of a government crisis. Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores, Guatemala's chief of state: ''The suspension of the new laws was done to avoid a greater conflict and not affect the majority of Guatemalans.'' Other moves: Leonardo Figueroa Villate, finance minister for three years, was fired; Mejia Victores canceled a trip to the Vatican, Israel and Egypt that was scheduled to start Sunday. The trip decision appeared to be an acknowledgement of discontent about government economic policies.